…a junior high science project for free, instead of tens of thousands by a NASA worker. Or better yet, just video the vortex when you flush a toilet with a thousand chopped up $100 bills going down the drain.

Eric, you can’t be serious, this makes you want to go to Mars? You would risk your life and spend years doing nothing just to see a dust devil in a place devoid of life? If you want to see that, I have seen dust devils in Death Valley and the Jornado del Muerto, both devoid of life and looking a lot like Mars, so go there, much cheaper, safer and just as stark and bizarre.

I am trying to analyze this, in respect to my many previous posts as regards tornadoes and hurricane “eyes”, and patching the latter with a slush of barite (iron) and liquid nitrogen.

The picture covers what, 100 football fields, and this one solitary spot was the only place a twister developed?

It does not make sense that anyone could attribute the event exclusively to the change in “heat”, if this were the only tornado in the picture. Observation: I believe I read the red planet got its name from iron oxide, and yet the plume is white (enhanced)?

Very much like the post an unknown force striking perpendicular to a surface atmosphere, except for the scant atmosphere’s and light gravity the Coriolis effect, the frame could very much remain perpendicular.
I could yield that heat plays the part in converting liquid to gas or expanding gas to kick up this dust. But once airborne the plume rises 100-200-300 feet perpendicular?

I believe there is another sustaining force other than heat, much as I suggested ion previous discussions, probably the same force that would dry clothes on a hangar at 50 degrees (it sucks the moisture out of the clothes).

If this plume were iron, and that the sun spots a plenty were there to strike this perpendicular, I suspect I would give some consideration that that force were generated there. An if this conclusion were true and there are (z)(b)millions of stars with the opportunity billions of light years away to do the same thing with maybe the same force-effect.
What could this force do to our atmosphere, where it matters (dense humid air)?